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And for the dozenth time he was rewarded only by seeing a flake no larger than his clenched fist fall out. "Might as well be cement!" he rasped. "God, we're caught like flies in a spiderweb!" "Well, you wanted excitement," remarked Dennis, a bit acidly. The strain was telling on him more than on the less finely strung Holden; but he was struggling to keep himself in hand.
To which, with great composure and pretended innocence, Sancho replied, "If they are curds let me have them, your worship, and I'll eat them; but let the devil eat them, for it must have been he who put them there. I dare to dirty your helmet! You have guessed the offender finely!
"Oh, you may trust me to keep my mouth shut," said Lavinia with mock gravity. A sweeping curtsey and she turned towards the door. At the same moment a lady cloaked and hooded like herself entered. They stared at each other as they passed. Lavinia recognised Sally Salisbury, though the latter was much more finely dressed than when they encountered each other outside the Maidenhead Tavern in St.
There was a true and fine air of nobility in his lofty form and well-marked features a character of matured thought and intellectual power in the expansive brow, and in the firm gaze of his large dark eyes, as yet undimmed by age with evidence of decision and self-respect, and habitual composure in the finely formed mouth and chin.
His brows were knit; his lips were fast set; he held the girl's hand in a grip that hurt her. The latent strength of will in him that reserved resolution, so finely and firmly entwined in the natures of sensitively organized men was rousing itself to meet the coming trial. The doctor would have doubly believed in him, if the doctor had seen him at that moment.
It gave suddenly with a jerk, and there lay a dog's collar, made of small flexible plates of pure beaten gold, mounted on Russian leather, all of the finest workmanship. And on a slip of paper in his darling's own writing he read: "This is for Pike, my beloved one; let him wear it always a gift from me." On the collar itself, finely engraved, were the words, "Pike, belonging to Paul Verdayne."
Though mere residual masses of the plateau, they are dowered with the grandeur and repose of mountains, together with the finely chiseled carving and modeling of man's temples and palaces, and often, to a considerable extent, with their symmetry.
It seems to me that I have trouble only when you want the wire." He laughed, a loud, boyish laugh, that shook the room. "We had a hard struggle the first time we tried it, didn't we?" "Rather," she replied. He looked at her for a few moments without speaking, admiring her large black eyes, the finely arched eyebrows, the delicately chiselled mouth. Then he said: "You were very patient about it."
Her face, half resting on the lap of the old woman, was graceful and regular in form, her eyes were half shut-like those of a child, whose soul is wrapped in some sweet dream-but from her finely chiselled lips there escaped from time to time a painful, almost convulsive sob.
Ah, what gleams of colored light shoot through the hair! Here is a bird's nest on a bar, lying side of a wide fan, shaped like a palm leaf; in the plaitings are curled all colors, pink, blue, yellow, and green. This shell is like a foot with eighteen or twenty toes, smooth, shining, and of flesh-like tints. This is like a bat's wing, with lines and webs finely tinted.
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